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title: Why he went about from stall to stall taking up things from each, he… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Why he went about from stall to stall taking up things from each, here some fruit, and there some eggs, and so on; and no one seemed to take any notice. Who acts: fellow, one. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fairy Ointment, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# English Fairy Tales, Fairy Ointment, sentence 26

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Why he went about from stall to stall taking up things from each, here some fruit, and there some eggs, and so on; and no one seemed to take any notice.

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**Who acts:** fellow, one · **What happens:** go about, stall, take up, seem, take · **To what, where:** eggs, stall, things, each, notice

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fairy Ointment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7439:46:26
# text = Why he went about from stall to stall taking up things from each, here some fruit, and there some eggs, and so on; and no one seemed to take any notice.
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	stall	stall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	stall	stall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	det	_	_
30	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	det	_	_
35	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go about** | past | fellow | some eggs |  | stall |  | about *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stall** | to-infinitive | fellow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn delay-53.3-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take up** | gerund | fellow *not said here* | things |  | each; here |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent thing=Theme from each=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **seem** | past | no one |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **take** | to-infinitive | no one *not said here* | any notice |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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